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1784 results for: Keyword - Widow and Children of Christian Steffkins
We found 860 matches on Performance Title, 629 matches on Performance Comments, 433 matches on Event Comments, 18 matches on Author, and 0 matches on Roles/Actors.

576
02 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

577
05 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023 (playbill)

578
11 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. The King seem'd vastly pleas'd at the Farce (Hopkins Diary). Paid Chorus 2 nights (this incl.) #5 1s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #256 15s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Grand Concluding Dance Actor: .
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Scott
Role: With a Grand Procession of the different Or Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

579
13 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17720922

580
21 November 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Mrs Smith Polly (first time) very well (Hopkins Diary). Paid Salary list #513 17s. 6d.; Miss Mansell and Mr Dimon 5 guineas each per order, #10 10s.; Mr Clinch ditt, #5 5s.; Rec'd stopages #20 13s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #141 2s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Beggar's Opera

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023; II: Minuet, Allemande-Mas. Holland, Miss Armstrong, Scholars of Daigville

Performance Comment: Holland, Miss Armstrong, Scholars of Daigville.

581
05 December 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: King Arthur

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

582
12 December 1772 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

583
27 January 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Cymon

Cast
Role: Grand Concluding Dance Actor: .
Role: Urganda Actor: Mrs Scott
Role: With a Grand Procession of the different Or Actor:

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

584
11 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Conscious Lovers

Performance Comment: Young Bevil-Reddish; Tom-King; Myrtle-Jefferson; Cimberton-Love; Daniel-Waldron; Sir John Bevil-Bransby; Sealand-Aickin; Humphrey-Keen; Mrs Sealand-Mrs Cross; Isabella-Mrs Johnston; Lucinda-Miss Platt; Indiana-Miss Younge; Phyllis-Miss Pope; In II, Song-Mrs Scott.
Cast
Role: Sealand Actor: Aickin
Role: Mrs Sealand Actor: Mrs Cross

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

585
15 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

586
22 February 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Maid Of The Mill

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: Comic Dance, as17720922; End Act I Afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17721023

587
29 April 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Othello

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: V: A Comic Dance, as17730325 End I Afterpiece: The Irish Fair, as17721023

588
22 May 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: House (Hopkins Diary). Afterpiece: By Desire and for last time this season. Paid salary list #520 7s. 6d.; Rec'd stopages #17 9s. 6d (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #215 8s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Barry

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17721023

Monologue: 1773 5 22 Between Play and Farce: A Favourite Musical Interlude, The Recruiting Serjeant. As 13 May

589
12 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Paid tallow chandler's 2nd Bill #42 9s.; Mr D. Garrick #934 11s. 8d. advanced by him at the close of last season, with #18 Interest on ditto at 5%--#952 11s. 8d.; Balance of Theatrical Fund Night last Season #286 19s, with #3 8s. 9d. Interest on ditto at 3%--#290 7s. 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: A Gentlewoman, first appearance on that stage.

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

590
17 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: By Command. Paid Mr Parsons on note #10 10s. Receipts: #255 1s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Chances

Cast
Role: Landlady Actor: Mrs Bradshaw

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: A Gentlewoman, first appearance on that stage.

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

591
22 November 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: A Gentlewoman, first appearance on that stage.

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

592
06 December 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Jane Shore

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: A Gentlewoman, first appearance on that stage.

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

593
23 December 1773 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The School For Wives

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: A Gentlewoman, first appearance on that stage.

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

594
08 January 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: A Christmas Tale

Cast
Role: Good and Evil spirits Actor: Mrs Davies, Mrs _Johnston.
Role: Good and Evil spirits in various characters Actor: Hurst, Ackman, W. Palmer, Wright, Wrighten, Courtney, Miss Platt, Mrs Johnston, Mrs Bradshaw, Mrs Millidge, Mrs Scott, Fawcett, Mrs Hunt, Mrs Smith, Kear, Burton

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: A Gentlewoman, first appearance on that stage.

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

595
27 April 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Phaedra And Hippolitus

Cast
Role: Cratander Actor: Davies

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Greville.

Entertainment: II: (By Particular Desire) Hippsley's Drunken Man-Weston; IV: An Ode on Masonry-Vernon, Dodd, Bannister; End: (1st and only time this season) Imitations with several new characters-Bannister

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

596
04 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Alexander The Great; Or, The Rival Queens

Performance Comment: Alexander-Reddish; Clytus-Aickin; Lysimachus-Hurst; Cassander-Palmer; Hephestion-Packer; Polyperchon-Bransby; Thessalus-J. Aickin; Perdiccas-Ackman; Eumenes-Keen; Sysigambis-Mrs Johnston; Roxana-Miss Younge; Statira-Mrs Greville; first time; Parisatis-Mrs Hopkins; With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon-.
Cast
Role: Alexander Actor: Reddish
Role: Cassander Actor: Palmer
Role: With the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon Actor: .

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Greville.

Dance: I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

597
12 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Hartry and Fawcett. Paid 1 extra Trumpet in Rehearsal & 5 in Alexander #2 5s. Receipts: #199 5s. 6d. Charges: #65 5s. Profits to the beneficiaries: #134 6d. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Way To Keep Him

Cast
Role: Widow Bellmour Actor: Mrs Abington

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Greville.

Entertainment: End Act V: Judge Tycho's Sentence-Weston. [See17740505.

Dance: End I: The Irish Fair, as17730918

598
20 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Amphitryon

Performance Comment: Mercury-Brereton, first time; Phoebus-Wrighten; Jupiter-Reddish; Amphitryon-J. Aickin; Gripus-Parsons; Polydas-Wright; Tranio-Fawcett; Sosia-King; Phaedra-Miss Pope; Bromia-Mrs Bradshaw; Night-Miss Platt; Alcmena-Miss Younge; In which will be introduced an Interlude of singing and Dancing-; Plutus-Bannister; Wit-Mrs Scott; The Dance-Como, Giorgi.

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Greville.

Dance: I: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

599
24 May 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Event Comment: Benefit for Mortimer, Tomlinson and Lings. Paid Mr Page on Note #5 5s. (Treasurer's Book). Receipts: #262 19s. Charges: #84. Profits to beneficiaries: #178 19s. (Treasurer's Book)

Performances

Mainpiece Title: The Gamesters

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Brady Actor: Mrs Greville.

Dance: ByMaster Whitlow, Miss Lings; End I Afterpiece: The Sailors Revels, as17730928

600
13 October 1774 @ Drury Lane Theatre

Performances

Mainpiece Title: Zara

Afterpiece Title: The Irish Widow

Cast
Role: Widow Actor: Mrs Greville.

Dance: End I of Farce: The Irish Fair, as17740917